Peach Bottom township, York County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (51% naturalized citizens)
Peach Bottom township: | 1.7% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
64% of Peach Bottom township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 30% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 12% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1264
- Northeast: 95
- Midwest: 92
- South: 2765
- West: 71
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $102,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
24 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,607
- One, attached: 52
- Two: 29
- 3 or 4: 41
- Mobile homes: 117
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $65,000
Housing units in Peach Bottom township with a mortgage: 903 (32 second mortgage, 148 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 208
- Construction (20%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (14%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Peach Bottom township:
- German (32.3%)
- United States or American (17.8%)
- Irish (13.5%)
- English (7.6%)
- Italian (5.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.3%)
- Polish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (26%)
- Jamaica (22%)
- Romania (16%)
- Austria (13%)
- Germany (13%)
- Hungary (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,685 (79%)
- Carpooled: 230 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 18 (1%)
- Other means: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 162 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (38%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Wood (10%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Solar energy (1%)
24 people in homes for the mentally ill
95.2% of residents of Peach Bottom township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English not well).
3.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (96% speak English very well, 4% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,388- In family households: 4,037 (1,043 male householders, 194 female householders)
1,076 spouses, 1,462 children (1,335 natural, 16 adopted, 111 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 17 brothers or sisters, 34 parents, 24 other relatives, 161 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 351 (188 male householders (159 living alone)), 105 female householders (93 living alone)), 58 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 24 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 449 2-persons, 325 3-persons, 267 4-persons, 127 5-persons, 36 6-persons, 33 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 252 1-person, 21 2-persons, 15 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
1,019 married couples with children.
194 single-parent households (95 men, 99 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 78
Here: | 12.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
Here: | 11.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 19
Here: | 31.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |